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www.louisvillecardinal. com The Independent Student Newspaper
Graham speaks to campus
Son of Louisville police shooting victim James Taylor addresses students,
faculty at SAB forum; protests continue at LPD headquarters
By Jennifer Hanley
Staff Correspondent
U of L's SAB, NAACP and
the Progressive Student
League hosted a forum titled
"The Execution of Justice" on
Tuesday, January 21, at the
Red Barn. This event, which
came in the wake of the fatal
police shooting of James Tay­lor,
was a dialogue on the re­lations
between Louisville po­lice
and the African American
community.
Acting Assistant Vice
President for Student Life AI
Herring was the moderator for
the event, which included rep­resentatives
from the American
Civil Liberties Union, a Cin­cinnati-
based activist group
called Concerned Citizens for
Justice, and the University of
Louisville. The keynote
speaker was James Taylor's
son, James Graham.
Photo by Maria Gaffney
tremely pressing," Hudson
said.
Jeff Vessels of ~he ACLU
spoke for a few minutes on the
fight that various activist
groups· were in locally to get a
civilian police review board to
hold Louisville police officers
accountable for their actions.
The proposal was passed by
the Board of Aldermen, only to
be vetoed by former mayor
Dave Armstrong. The Board of
Aldermen overturned his rejec­tion
to be sued by the Frater­nal
Order of Police. Now that
the government has been
merged, the proposal is a moot
point and the fight must begin
again, with new Metro mayor
Jerry Abramson against a civil­ian
review board.
Each panelist spoke for a
few minutes before the floor
was opened to questions from
the audience. Assistant Dean
of Arts and Sciences and Pan
African Studies department
chair Blaine Hudson spoke on
the origins of the police force
and the history of the police
force in Louisville. The police
came from a group of people
called "The Watch," who were
James Graham, son of LPD victim James Taylor, spoke at a forum
last Tuesday sponsored by the Student Activities Board.
Victoria Straughn of Con­cerned
Citizens for Justice
opened her remarks with the
familiar call, "No justice, no
peace. Why is that a call that
we automatically know the
words to? Because we have
heard it too many times. I think
the question before us now is :
what are we going to do?"
Straughn spoke about the
similarity between what hap­pened
in Cincinnati and what
is now happening in Louis­ville.
The government in Cin
responsible for watching out
for runaway slaves and later
became a means to keep Afri­can
Americans in line in the
post-Civil War era.
Racist t-shirt in
Bank One giveaway
sparks controversy
By Eugene Vilensky
Assistant News Editor
On a campus where racial ten­sions
seem perpetually high in a
state with a reprehensible history,
another incident has provoked the
ire of a community and an admin­istration
that seems ever more re­sponsive
to such concerns.
At 3:30pm on Thursday, Janu­ary
23, in the Student Activities
Center, two individuals distribut­ing
credit card applications were
giving away at-shirt labeled "Ten
Reasons Why a Beer is Better
Than A Black Man" as an incen­tive
to sign up.
Sources tell The Louisville
Cardinal that outspoken African­American
students approached the
vendors concerning the meaning
behind the t-shirt. A confrontation
resulted, and DPS was alerted.
The vendors were quickly ush­ered
off campus and university
officials were made aware of the
situation, as were Bank One rep
See UNIVERSITY page 4
"The need to change the
structure and the culture of the
police department and the jus­tice
system in our community
is still one that is still ex - See GRAHAM page 4
Photo by Maria Gaffney
On Sunday afternoon, area clergy and members of the Louisville community
rallied outside Louisville Police headquarters to demonstrate opposition to
the fatal shooting of James Taylor by the Louisville Police on December 5,
2002. University of Louisville students, including members of the Alpha Phi
Alphaji·aternity, joined communiLy members, who were led by the Reverend
Louis Coleman.